Catholic Schools and Multicultural Education: A Good Match

The Effects of Catholic Schools on Religiosity, Education, and Competition

Four criteria that have been suggested to evaluate the effects of private schooling and education vouchers are: (1) freedom of choice, (2) productive efficiency, (3) equity, and (4) social cohesion. This study uses these criteria to evaluate some of the effects of Catholic schooling in the United States. Catholic schools are shown to increase the ability of Catholic families to promote Catholic...

Staff Bullying in Catholic Schools

This article reports the findings of research into staff bullying in the Catholic schools of a large metropolitan area in Australia. A summary of the responses from over two hundred staff members to a survey instrument containing both closed-format and open-ended components is presented. It was found that a large percentage of teachers (97.5%) perceive they are or have been bullied. Specific ex...

Catholic schools or school quality? The effects of Catholic schools on labor market outcomes

This paper studies the effects of attending a Catholic high school on students’ labor market outcomes. Using data from theWisconsin Longitudinal Study, I find that Catholic schooling is significantly associatedwith higherwages over the careers even after taking into account possible selection into Catholic schools with instruments. Using matched school quality data for public and Catholic schoo...

Medical Education and Catholic Doctrine

Are Catholic Primary Schools More Effective than Public Primary Schools?

This paper assesses the causal effects of Catholic primary schooling on student outcomes such as test scores, grade retention, and behavior. Catholic school students have substantially better average outcomes than do public school students throughout the primary years, but we present evidence that selection bias is entirely responsible for these advantages. Estimates based on several empirical ...